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Culture Beat - 69% match to Real McCoy

Euro-dance sensations created by Torsten Fenslau (d. November 1993, Darmstadt, Germany) in 1989 by putting together the more visual duo of Jay Supreme and Tania Evans. Fenslau had begun his career DJing at the Dorian Gray club at Frankfurt Airport, also working on Hessen State radio presenting the Club Night and Maxi-Mix shows. He subsequently moved into production, scoring a s Read more

B.G. The Prince of Rap - 46% match to Real McCoy

Washington, DC, Maryland, USA. One of rap’s woefully inadequate types, BG, the self-proclaimed Prince Of Rap, specialized in empty rhetoric. An ex-GI based in Germany, whom one reviewer unkindly renamed the ‘Prince Of Wack’. Conversely, Columbia Records introduced him as the ‘most exciting dance/rap act to emerge from Germany since Snap!’, which gave Read more

Whigfield - 44% match to Real McCoy

Sannie Charlotte Carlson, 11 April 1970, Skælskør, Denmark. Whigfield, her stage-name derived from the surname of a former music teacher, made her debut in 1994 with ‘Saturday Night’, a repetitive example of banal Europop which became a huge international seller on release in September of that year, reaching the top of the UK charts and selling over 75 Read more

Black Box - 43% match to Real McCoy

One of the leading exponents of a wave of Italian house music that flourished on the dancefloors of the late 80s and early 90s, Black Box comprised three Italian studio musicians (Daniele Davoli, Mirko Limoni and Valerio Semplici), collectively known as Groove Groove Melody. Based in the Regio D’Emillia area of northern Italy, and made frequent use of ‘singer’ Ka Read more

Fun Factory - 43% match to Real McCoy

A cosmopolitan 90s pop/dance group from Hamburg, Germany, Fun Factory comprise singer Marie-Annett (France), backing singer Smooth T. (b. Italy), dancer Steve (b. Germany) and rapper Rod D. (b. USA). Since their inception in the early 90s, and with the substantive help of producer Bulow Aris, they have successfully achieved a string of pop hits including ‘Groove Me’ Read more

Haddaway - 37% match to Real McCoy

Nester Alexander Haddaway, Tobago, West Indies. A lightweight dance music artist licensed to Arista Records from his German home at Coconut/Logic Records, Haddaway scored a huge crossover hit throughout Europe with the anthemic ‘What Is Love’ in 1993, followed by the equally strident ‘Life’. The artist grew up in Washington, DC, USA, before relocating to Read more

Amber - 36% match to Real McCoy

Netherlands. One of the first Euro dance music vocalists to make an impact in the USA in the mid-90s, Amber rose to prominence when her single, ‘This Is Your Night’, became a Top 40 hit for Tommy Boy Records. Unlike most Euro crossover hits, the artist had been signed directly to the label rather than being the subject of an opportunistic licensing arrangement. Ind Read more

Technotronic - 36% match to Real McCoy

Belgian commercial techno outfit created by producer Jo Bogaert, aka Thomas De Quincy. After playing keyboards in the indie outfit White Light in the mid-80s, Bogaert began working on his own dance music tracks, using various pseudonyms such as Nux Nemo and Acts Of Madmen. He was looking for a female rapper to sing over a backing track he had produced, before stumbling upon Ya Read more

Crystal Waters - 32% match to Real McCoy

10 October 1964, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Waters’ enjoys one of the more colourful backgrounds among dance music’s modern female exponents. She majored in Computer Science at Howard University. Her father was jazz musician Junior Waters, and her great-aunt Ethel Waters. Indeed everyone in her family played an instrument, though some of her own initial foray Read more

Cathy Dennis - 30% match to Real McCoy

25 March 1969, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Dennis displayed early vocal poise and by the age of 13 she was singing in her father’s Alan Dennis Band at Butlin’s holiday resorts. Cathy started her career proper in the mid-80s singing in a covers band where she was spotted by Dancin’ Danny D’s manager, Simon Fuller, at the time looking for a female singer to Read more

No Mercy - 24% match to Real McCoy

Ace of Base - 19% match to Real McCoy

This Swedish pop band achieved their breakthrough in 1993 with the Denniz Pop -produced worldwide number 1, ‘All That She Wants’. The comparisons to a fellow Swedish band seemed obvious - two female vocalists, one blonde, one brunette, and two male musicians, playing catchy dance-inflected pop music. The band, who originally recorded as Tech Noir, was formed by two si Read more

Paula Abdul - 19% match to Real McCoy

19 June 1962, San Fernando, California, USA. After spending much of her childhood in dance schools and troupes, Paula Abdul secured a role in the L.A. Lakers basketball cheerleaders team and at 17 became their choreographer. Spotted by the Jacksons, she was employed to assist them on dance routines for their live dates on the Victory tour. Abdul’s big break came when sh Read more

Wreckx-N-Effect - 17% match to Real McCoy

With their Teddy Riley -produced single of the same name in 1988, this US vocal group announced the arrival of New Jack Swing, or swingbeat. Formed by Markell Riley (Teddy’s brother), Brandon Mitchell (the Rileys’ half-brother), and Aquil Davidson, the group’s career was rocked by the death of Mitchell in a 1989 shooting. The intervening period was not especially Read more

K7 - 16% match to Real McCoy

This Latin-flavoured hip-hop unit from Manhattan, New York, USA found chart success in 1993 with the addictive and anthemic ‘Come Baby Come’. The quintet combine energetic R&B arrangements with clean raps, a style that has been unkindly referred to as ‘The Hispanic Take That’. Led by K7, who gives the group their name, they also feature DJ Non-Stop, Prop Read more